FINALLY ON NATIONAL TV, shady coach dealings, Sue Bird on the WNBA, and Peyton schematics galore: it's your Thursday linkbomb!
Thursday is for ICYMI
- The SEC network's bounty is as boundless as the sea, and its gifts as deep: ending years of local-broadcast insanity, our Worldwide Leader overlords announced yesterday they'll broadcast every SEC program's spring game, including the Orange & White game, which will be aired live on Saturday, April 16 at 2PM EST. Which announcers we'll get has yet to be released.
- Further cementing his status as college athletics' premier repository of "well I guess pushing a broken system to the point of fully breaking isn't the worst thing you could do"-ness, Kentucky's John Calipari announced on Twitter yesterday that his entire team, including walk-ons, would submit their names to the NBA draft in hopes of being invited to the Combine (recall that the NCAA now allows college players to submit their names up to 3 times to the NBA without violating their college eligibility.